Disco 2 / Cranks but won't start
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Drifting
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Final report and outcome: the problem was the interior fuse box.
I re-installed the old one that I had removed last year due to the A/C blower issue. Had to reset the alarm and it started on the first attempt. I don't have A/C again, but at least the engine is running fine.
Many thanks to all of you for your help and suggestions.
I re-installed the old one that I had removed last year due to the A/C blower issue. Had to reset the alarm and it started on the first attempt. I don't have A/C again, but at least the engine is running fine.
Many thanks to all of you for your help and suggestions.
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Drifting
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If you Google search "Land Rover Discovery 2 fuse box", you'll find a lot of people having problems with the fuse box; especially with fuses 6 and/or 7 for the A/C blower motor.
It was another forum member that posted the instructions on how to diagnose the issue and check for the proper current going from the fuse box to the coil packs.
Last edited by Explorer0863; Mar 8, 2017 at 04:04 PM. Reason: added info.
Recovery Vehicle
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I don't know for sure, but I don't think that it was rust. I opened it and I saw no rust, but I noticed that one of the soldered "things" on the electronic board looked burned.
If you Google search "Land Rover Discovery 2 fuse box", you'll find a lot of people having problems with the fuse box; especially with fuses 6 and/or 7 for the A/C blower motor.
It was another forum member that posted the instructions on how to diagnose the issue and check for the proper current going from the fuse box to the coil packs.
If you Google search "Land Rover Discovery 2 fuse box", you'll find a lot of people having problems with the fuse box; especially with fuses 6 and/or 7 for the A/C blower motor.
It was another forum member that posted the instructions on how to diagnose the issue and check for the proper current going from the fuse box to the coil packs.
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Fuse box underneath hood?
For what its worth I purchased a Disco with the same intermittant starting problems about a year ago. The previous owner gave up trying to fix it.
Going through his records I saw that the ECU had been swapped out 2 years before at a dealership. Whoever replaced it did not put the plugs back in the correct order meaning #1, then #2 etc. They did the ends then worked in to the middle.
Anyway the middle plug would ocassionaly fault after hitting a bump then no start. Next day it would fire up and go for a week. It took me 3 weeks to figure this out. Pulled all 6 out then put them in per the manual. All is good now.
Going through his records I saw that the ECU had been swapped out 2 years before at a dealership. Whoever replaced it did not put the plugs back in the correct order meaning #1, then #2 etc. They did the ends then worked in to the middle.
Anyway the middle plug would ocassionaly fault after hitting a bump then no start. Next day it would fire up and go for a week. It took me 3 weeks to figure this out. Pulled all 6 out then put them in per the manual. All is good now.